Lantz: Game designers should aspire to chess and basketball, not movies
Frank Lantz · Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator · Dec 20, 2018 · at 49:31
Frank Lantz, director of the NYU Game Center, discusses the ultimate ambitions and cultural potential of game design.
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“Video games are awesome, but we should not be aspiring to be as successful as a successful movie, right? We should be looking at the history of, like, look at chess. Look at Go. Look at poker. Look at basketball. And that's what games can do, right? They can become these foundational experiences that people live their lives inside of and have careers in, And teach their children”
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